ilb,
hope you got power back, but regardless, I want you to know, that you, Mrs. and your two adorable little creatures always have an open invitation, not only for taking a shower in my place at any time, but also a permit of using all amenities (except my toothbrush) permanently. So, don’t wait for a next hurricane (Katya?), use it now.
CCCP,
would like to extend this to you too, but with stipulations – you bring vodka + beer of your choice in ratio 1: 5, for first ten games of the season, and I ‘ll take care of big(50″)flat TV, pickles, marinated mushrooms, rough bread on newspapers and kvas in the morning.

hey all been a few days since i posted. at about 4am sunday morning irene decided to knock out my power. when you have a 6 month old son at home thats the hard part. fortunately my dad whos 5 miles away has power. we have essentially moved in there as i was told there wont be power back at my home in long island until friday at the earliest.

taking a 6 month old out of there routine at home is the hardest part. he sleeps through the night but last night at my dads he was up every hour. today i am like a zombie.

Geez. I leave Montauk for Upstate thinking I would dodge the carnage. Upstate is a frikin disaster!!! Throughway was closed so I couldn’t get back until it re-opened (which must have been last nite). I pull into Montauk, and it looks like nothing happened!!! No lost power. A few branches down. A few shingles off of my 40 year old wall. This could be the one occasion when an evacuation was more dangerous than a “riding it out”!!!

I must confess I feel guilty, actually guilty that I had no unfortunate problems to deal with. It just waved at us here on the Space Coast, and then after a few thunder clouds, bright sun and no problems at all. But my kids up in CT weren’t all that lucky. I may have told you in the past that my eldest daughter is an executive with the United Utilities, and she was told to get to her office and bring sleeping gear for she was to man the emergency phones, for the evening. She said that she bundled up her stuff and brought a sleeping bag and kept it under her desk and spent the 6PM thru overnight, there for fielding calls.
she said that she was eating out of coin machines and a teapot ( she never drinks coffee). Then when day light appeared that morning she was on deck for a full day duty in her normal job. I told her that she was spoiled rotten. She laughed and agreed…she’s a good kid. ( Kid. She’s got three grand daughters in or just graduated from college.)

How many of you folks saw the one TV shot of a large
area under water near a bridge that had a sign posted….NO HOCKEY…………….hmmmm?

It’s gratifying to learn that all the bonesters are safe and reasonably sound ( or as sound as they ever get),
and Carp made it successfully from wherever he was trapped.

LOL! I thought of “pretending” to leave the house to see if that would work, but I’m just doomed today. I’m guessing it’s because people are out of power where I’m trying to reach, but hey, someone can answer a cell phone!!

By the way fran, since you seem to love history so much, you should read this amazing book. It blew me away and I read it straight through yesterday, couldn’t put it down. “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption” by Laura Hillenbrand. Just brilliant and I recommend it to everyone. If this story weren’t true, you’d laugh at the audacity of the author, but it’s all real.

I will read it indeed. Just finished an amazing book on Genghis Kahn and his offspring , and how they came close to over running the entire known world. The Silver empire.( or maybe it was the Empire of Silver)

And I still recommend the book titled, And the Walls Came Tumbling down. True account of a little known event that was crucial to the landings on Normandy in 1944. Title of the first chapter was ” The Man who sold People”

Thanks fran, I’ll check those out. But to be honest, after reading two back-to-back books about WWII (“Unbroken” non-fiction and one fiction, “The Invisible Bridge,” also highly recommended) I need a break from how hartnelled up the world was, and still is…..

cw – Re: your post at 1:37, that’s why I’m pissed about this storm because the government has to base their warnings on what the news/weather people say, and all they cared about were the cities on coast. Forget the fact that all the forecasts then showed the storm moving almost due north from NYC. But those people don’t matter, right??? Stupid.

On a lighter note, are the people that I had in the fantasy hockey group on Yahoo last year interested in having another go? I will invite all of the active teams again, since I realize many regulars are not around here right now due to offseason/storm.

Oh hey – to all you people that said Beltran was SO under appreciated…..He was getting booed last night in San Fran – probably because he is hitting about .130 with RISP. I believe he is 4/34 or something like that. Are they undervaluing him out there!?